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| UNISA Language Policy Huge Victory for Afrikaans and Language Rights |
| 2021-09-23 |
| [AfriForum] The ruling handed down by the Constitutional Court today in favour of AfriForum in the case for the retention of Afrikaans as a primary language of instruction at the University of South Africa (Unisa), is hailed by AfriForum as a huge victory for Afrikaans, Afrikaans-speaking students and language rights in South Africa in general. The case was heard by this court on 20 May 2021 and judgment was reserved. This followed after the Supreme Court of Appeal had ruled in favour of AfriForum on this issue with its judgment in 2020 that Unisa’s language policy had not been adopted "in a constitutionally compliant manner". The Constitutional Court upheld the Supreme Court of Appeal’s finding that Unisa’s current language policy, which provides only for English as the primary medium of instruction, is unconstitutional, but allowed more time for the implementation of the ruling. The full ruling is not yet available, but AfriForum has the greatest appreciation for the Constitutional Court’s position on students’ right to mother language education. |
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